Painting stone - found the colour - finished!

Hi guys. I'm working on some buildings without interior. Nothing fancy, just some dwellings built onto a crumbled bridge. The problem is: I'm totally out of inspiration when it comes to selection of colour on the rocky parts. So give me a nudge in a direction, will you? It's for a competition over at TG

Here's one of the three builds.

Nice little piece. This site has been recommended to me--

http://www.hirstarts.com/painting/painting2.html

Can I ask a stupid question? What is TG?

2many wrote:

Can I ask a stupid question? What is TG?

Terragenesis, my good sir.

Looking great, man!

For stone you can start with a dark grey and then drybrush it with lighter greys and creams to highlight the stone.

Cianty has some great terrain painting tutorials here: http://cianty-tabletop.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Tutorial

Keep us posted on your progress, please!

Joao

Stone is very rarely just grey in real life.

I'd recommend starting from a dark brown, rather than grey. Use as much grey as you like in the dry-brushed layers but having a dark brown base makes for a more natural, realistic looking stone to my eyes. I'd also add a few thinned washes of black, brown and green to some areas as well for a greater range of colours.

WarbossKurgan wrote:

Stone is very rarely just grey in real life.

I'd recommend starting from a dark brown, rather than grey. Use as much grey as you like in the dry-brushed layers but having a dark brown base makes for a more natural, realistic looking stone to my eyes. 'd also add a few thinned washes of black, brown and green to some areas as well for a greater range of colours.

Damn, forgot to mention the washes!!!

And yes, dark brown as a base is also a good idea. For variation, you can have dark grey on some, dark brown on others. It also helps to add some weathering with lighter browns, and/or greens for moss effects.

Joao

Thanks for the feedback guys. I got something to work with now.
@ von Kurst: I was looking for something more varied than the Hirst Arts site, Inspiring place it has been for years though.
@ JoaoS: Great link! And good to see Chianty is back to the important stuff.
@ Warboos Curgan: Yeah. Great tip with the washes and base.
I'll try out your suggested washes and drybrushes and see what I come up with. And there will be liberal amounts of weathering off course - staining, powders and foliage... Pictures coming...

And so it was finished at last...









More WiP at TerraGenesis

That looks insane!! Wonderful job, man! Love the soil and rocks in the foundations. It's super realistic! Well done.

Joao

That turned out to be an EXCELLENT piece of craftsmanship. The colors you chose are TERRIFIC I especially like the crumbled section with the variety of different colored rocks. VERY WELL DONE!

Great terrain idea and well executed.

JoaoS wrote:

Love the soil and rocks in the foundations. It's super realistic! Well done.

I can't take credit for the soil and rocks, I'm afraid. Just letting nature doing its own work.

Great work! Looks like a real centerpiece terrain bit!

These do look great. I especially like the mortar on the brick bits, looks qite good. I can't pull that off yet.

I'm lovng this idea!
and the execution, paintwork, finisching touches etc. are excellent!